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23 Leaders Selected for 2024 Advancing Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards Fellowship

NonProfit Leadership Center

Melissa Morin Director, University of South Florida Foundation Melissa Morin, director at the University of South Florida Foundation, is one of 23 outstanding professionals of color selected to participate in the Nonprofit Leadership Center’s 2024 Advancing Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards Fellowship. ” Harold Bryant Jr.,

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Better Climate Funding Means Centering Local and Indigenous Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Twenty-five percent of the entire Amazon Basin is on legally recognized Indigenous Territories, which are generally better protected than even government parks and reserves. Even less support has reached rightsholder women , despite the essential role of women in forest management and their exclusion from many governance structures.

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Capacity Building as a Tool for Transformation

NonProfit Quarterly

Increasingly, we’re calling ourselves coaches—and not consultants—because we know that organizational development that fails to center people does not achieve durable impact. In our soon-to-be released strategic plan, we champion community-based organizations and advocate for them in philanthropy.

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Building Power for Healthy Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It has become clear that only with deep, long-term investment from government and foundations can these communities hope to make meaningful progress in improving their residents’ health and well-being. billion in 14 Californian communities over a span of 10 years.

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Leading to Local

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As a result, due diligence, risk assessments, proposal development processes, grant agreements, and accountability reporting all need to incorporate the extent to which locally led organization are lifted, strengthened, and connected. Organizational investments can be made individually by partner or as part of a cohort of organizations.

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Five Lessons for Creating an Effective (and Accountable) Nonprofit Board

Blue Avocado

But the reality is that these people won’t necessarily be effective in a governance role. Our general counsel conducted several governance workshops, 4 and the board became well-versed in their roles as well as our bylaws, revising them as needed. Here’s a unique model of nonprofit board governance based in consensus. ︎

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Coffey to step down as CEO of Center for Nonprofit Excellence

CNPE

Our classes help organizations work more effectively and efficiently – which means they can do more with the support they receive from foundations, corporate or individual donors.” She also said the work couldn’t have been done without the support of foundations, including the James Graham Brown Foundation, the C.E.&